v " xvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv vvvvv v :9 4i L i e < :>l,i iiii iAii; gflflflefifijud fig/:13 2 X/AAA/A/A/AAAAA/AAA/AAAAAA/A/A A W Wu "Nail ’em up if they don't deliver!” A Very Good Notion Indeed A nervous pat on the back this week to Presi- 'dent Glenn Leggett for his forthright decision to discuss and decide College policy towards military recruiting on campus BEFORE the recruiters ac— tually came. A few weeks ago—at the height of anti-Dow demonstrations in scattered American colleges and universities~columnist Wm. F. Buckley, Jr. praised the provost of the University of Rochester as “the nearest thing , r . to a Congressional Medal of Honor winner in the academic world." What did the Rochester provost—one Dr. Mc- Crea Hazlett—do to win such kudos from Conserv- ative Buckley? Dr. Hazlett calmly suspended 23 graduate stu- dents involved in the sit-ins for the entire Spring semester, thus picking up Buckley’s plaudits as, oddly enough, “the almost»hero of the forces of reason.” He set aside a decision to exonerate “a bunch of students who, once again, physically prevented a representative of Dow from meeting with job ap- plicants." It seems to the editors of this newspaper that when one begins giving medals to administrators who are suspending students left and right, one has lost some perspective. Buckley, while lauding Hazlett, had unkind words for the administrators of Harvard University who after “a goodish show of indignation . . . did not convincingly discipline the students” Well, anyway, what did President Leggett do to earn his pat on the back? He decided that to wait until after trouble was happening was absurd— even for a college president. He asked a Marine recruiting team to postpone its visits until he could sample the student body to see what, exactly, feeling toward military recruit- ment on campus at Grinnell actually is. Dr. Leggett didn’t sit on his rump and wait to expell students, as did Dr. Hazlett. He didn’t have to exonerate any students. as did the powers that be at Harvard. The Scarlet & Black thinks he did the right thing and that his‘“noti0n that the time to discuss potential trouble is before it happens" is a very good notion indeed. If Dr. Hazlett deserves a Congressional medal, I think we can at least give Dr. Glenn Leggett a nervous pat on the back. * i ‘k * Sampling Siuilent Opinion Survey of student attitude at Grinnell, like everything else at this place, have always suffered from non—involvement —— which is to say, apathy. Past editors of the S&B and many campus or- ganizations have attempted to sample student opin- ion by mailbox questionnaires. What they usually got back consisted of a handful of responses, of which fully half were jags. This semester’s S&B will be running student polls on various campus and off-campus issues every week, and the editors urge you take them seriously. Fill them out and be honest when you fill them out. On page five of this newspaper, you will find a questionnaire on campus military recruiting. Re- turn it to us today, and we'll have some answers for you next week. < X AAA/\AAAX ;‘ .l SCARLET AND BLACK Friday. January 26. I9“ res LAUGHS (Continued lrom Page 1) lug residence halls seems pretty silly to me and most of the people l’m in Contact with." Doug Tolleisen (Dibble) said to wards the end of the alternating discussion and laughter. Tollefsen said that Changes in the counselling system seemed more important to him ihan n1. temating sexes in the halls. MacDowell emphasized that the Student Affairs Committee was working on counselling “as one of its most important consid- orations.” Senior Senator T. J. Smith (Gates) probably best summed up the entire discussion on the subject. “I almost wish I was coming back next year to see it," Smith avowed, “A really highly-inte- grated police state.” long after the laughs on open donns and long after ihe Senate had pondered several other items, a freshman from Smith —nat a senator -— bmught the Senate info a state of extremely quiet seriousness. James Trotter stood before the student government repre- senfatiVeS and asked, in essence, for a student vote “on whether we want alternating dorms or the status quo." “On a mailer as important as our living conditions,” Trot- ter declared, “we should have a say in whether we want u change or not.” Trotter asked {or a sampling of the student body. In the next issue of the 5&3 (February 2) a questionnaire on the subject will appear. "No one has any idea of gen- oral student opinion on the sub. ject yet," Trotter concluded, “and We have to know what the sludents think before we can act in Iheir interest." llllllllllllllllllillllllilllllllllilllllHlllllllllllililllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll "This is the trulh . . . Nail ’em up . . . Nail ’em up if they don‘t deliver. Nail up anybody who stands in your way. You hand me the hammer and I’ll do it wilh my own hand. Nail ’em up on the barn door . . . You ask me what my program is. Here it is, you hicks. And don‘t you forget it. Nail ‘em up ll ihcy don’t deliver.” Huey P. Long IllllllllllllitllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHlllllHlllllllllllllllllll MOTION DEFEATED Defeated Wednesday night by a 25—8 vote was a resolution that the Senate recommend to the Election Board the abolishment of the SGA convention this year. Torn Triplett, sponsor, decried the "petty politicking” associ- ated with the convention. The North Younker senator added that often the convention seems like a game, and that the "common picture of the convention helps to degrade the image of SGA.“ lllllllllllllliilllliiiHilliiilllliiHilliliHillliiiililiiiilliiHilliiiiilllliiiilllil BIKES BAGGED in a recent edition of the Grlnnell Herald—Reysler, it; was announced by the able Grinnell Police Department that crime was on the rise during 1967, The Department also revealed that 125 bicycles were rcpmted stolen during 1967 and that it had recovered 135. ANTI-ANTI—WAR AGENCY By SHEILA RYAN LIBERATION News Service WASHINGTON. Jan. 19 —~ The new unit of the Justice Depart- ment, established to deal with violations of the Selective Service laws is apparently to be a super-secret entity, The Justice Dept. has refused to release any information on the plans of the unit or the names of personnel assigned to it. Officials also refuse to specify the number of employees under the unit, or even to state whether it is “tiny" or “massive.” The special prosecution unit is headed by John Van de Kamp, former US. Attorney for the Central District of Califomla and currently Deputy Director of the Executive Office for US. At~ tomeys. The Justice Dept. has turned down all requests from the press for interviews with Mr. Van de Kamp. The Attorney General’s year—end repnn stated that “intensive investigative and legal work done in 1967 was to lead to prosecu~ [ions in 1963 for aiding and abetting violations of Selective Service law—the first such prosecutions in a decade." in 1567, the Justice Dept. initiated 1,648 prosecutions undet the Universal Training Act. This represents an increase of 62 per cent over 1966, and 220 per cent over 1965. 952 convictions were obtained, a figure up 78 per cent from 1966 and 250 per cent from 1965. The average sentence meted out to those convicted under the draft law increased from 25.4 months in 1966 to 32.1 months in the past year. Recent statements by Attomey General Ramsey Clark indi- cate that the Justice Dept, is gearing up for a crackdown on in- surgent elements of the American population. Six weeks ago. in an announcement of the fonnation of the draft law prosecution unit, Clark said, “All U.S. Attorneys have been instructed to expedite investigation and prosecutorial recom- mendations on these cases. They have also been directed to co operate wxfh local law enforcement officials and to urge them to vigorously prosecute violations of local laws which may occur in demonstrations against the Selective Service System." _ One Justice Dept. employee who has no reluctance to voice her views on action against resistors ls Mrs. Audrey Shippen, of the visitors‘ information desk. Mrs. Shippen disclosed that “someone higher up than my im- mediate superior” had instructed her to beat a quick retreat from her post heat the Tenth Street and Pennsylvania entrance to the building “if things got rough" during the demonstration on Jan. 12. Mrs. Shippen said she was not afraid at the time because she was “well protected” by G.S.A. guards, including reinforce- ments irom buildings other than the Justice Dept, “some city police, plain Clothesmen, and maybe F.B.l.” She whispered, “They even used walkie-talkies . . . Oh yes, they did, Uncle Sam’s not asleep at the switch, as some of those demonstrators think he is.” Mrs. Shippen asserted that the elaborate precautions for the security of the Justice Dept. were necessary because "those people aren’t mentally balanced, you know. You never know what they might do.” Did she think Dr. Spock for example, might go berserk in the Justice Dept}? “You can never tell about those creatures. I never read his book myself, but I know some mothers who did, and personally, i think what he wrote about babies is a lot of bull." llillllllllllllllllilllllillilllllllllllllllllllllllllliilllllillllllHllllllllllllllllliillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliiillillllllilllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllHllllllllllliillll tiltiiieli . sunim Newspaper of Grinneli Colleg- IZDZ PARK 5111!“ GIINNELL. lOWA ill"! An independcnl newspaper published weekly. except during holidays mo exami- nnlion periods, by the Grinnell Committee on Student Publications. Represented ior mlionol advertising by National Educa- uonnl Advertising Services. zoo Lexington Ave. New York, NY. loolv. second class postage paid or orinneli. la. Subscription me :5 no per school year. loco paid sub. scriuncns, The Winions expressed on the edllorlul Page: or the sen do not necessarily rciiccl [he views or the college ndmlnisllnllon. inc cornmnlce on Sludenr Publicnlions. or the student body. 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